New Egypt gets back to work

After 18 days of demonstrations that forced President Hosni Mubarak to step down on Friday, the people in Egypt are now returning to work and performing their daily chores as usual. hops and restaurants were opened until midnight on aturday as the people were still !elebrating the su!!ess in toppling their president who ruled for "# years. $n %ahir &uare, the epi!entre of the nationwide uprising, members of the public came in droves to help protesters clean up the area, whi!h was littered with rubbish and debris. Armed with brooms and dust !olle!tors, the 'olunteers helped !lear the garbage that piled up during the demonstrations. ome of them took the opportunity to snap pi!tures with army personnel, who are still stationed in the area. (%his is a new Egypt. )e ha'e to play our role to ensure that it will be a beautiful, safe and prosperous !ountry,** said +mar Hasan, ",, who !ame with his friends to help in the !lean up. He said the 'olunteers were using their own money to buy the brooms and garbage bags. )e should be responsible as we ha'e yet to ele!t our new go'ernment, he said, adding that the !ountry was now under military rule. Enri!hment -ist. 1. /emonstrations . /emonstrasi

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. Men0atuhkan President mereka

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.Pemerintahan tentera

Chong Wei to give German Open a miss

-ee 8hong )ei has opted to withdraw from the :erman to fo!us on the defen!e of his All England title on Mar!h 8;1". <ational singles !oa!h 1ashid idek said securing the All England is the main ob0e!ti'e of 8hong )ei and felt that !ompeting in back-to-back tournaments will make it tougher for the )orld <o 1 to a!hie'e his goal in 9irmingham. %he :erman 6pen is normally used as a warm;up e'ent held a week before the All England and has attra!ted 8hong )ei=s arch rival -in /an while world !hampion 8hen >in will also be playing in the grand pri? gold e'ent. 8hong )ei@s attempt to wining ba!k;to;ba!k titles in the Malaysian 6pen and Aorean 6pen was halted by -in /an as the 6lympian !hampion se!ured the Premier uper eries !rown in eoul to grab badminton=s biggest pay !he&ue of + B7#,### C1M ,53,###D last month. (8hong )ei=s aim is to defend the All England title and its be!oming in!reasingly diffi!ult to win ba!k;to;ba!k titles. %his is the reason he has withdrawn from the :erman 6pen,* said 1ashid. Enri!hment -ist. 1. 6pted . Memilih

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. Musuh ketat

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. /isekat

True love can be forever young

-o'e is sweeter the se!ond time round for %ay Hui ek. he tought she would ne'er lo'e again after losing her first husband in the early 174#s. 9ut the 5#;year;old resident of Aampung %an0ung in 9atu 1akit, etiu, %erengganu, said she had been pro'en wrong. $n 1748, she said (yes* to a marriage proposal from 8heng Ah Eeng, who was then 23. <ow, 2" years later with three !hildren, ,2 grand!hildren and eight great;grand!hildren, she knew she !ould not ha'e asked for a more beautiful and blissful life. he also had three !hildren with her first husband. %he details are a little blurred now but $ remember my first husband lea'ing home one day and ne'er !ome ba!k. +ntil this day, $ do not know what happened to him. $ remember waiting for him to return, fending off the questions from our three !hildren on the absence of their father. After se'eral years, $ de!ided to marry a lo!al tailor for the sake of my !hildren. %hey are the epitome of romance and we are impressed with their !loseness, the way they look at ea!h other and the tender way they hold one another, said the utra 9ea!h 1esort and pa :eneral Manager, MaliFan Gakaria.
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. Menepis soalan

3. Absen!e

. Aetiadaan

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. Pengertian sebenar !inta

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. 8ara yang lembut

Demand for smartphones soars

)orldwide mobile sales in!reased ", per!ent last year and smartphone shipments surpassed those of personal !omputers CP8sD for the first time in the fourth &uarter. %e!hnology resear!h firm :artner said re!ently that mobile de'i!e sales rose "1.8 per !ent last year to 1.4 billion units o'er the previous year. :artner said Apple, maker of the iPhone, and 8anada=s 1esear!h $n Motion C1$MD, maker of the 9la!kberry, displaced ony Eri!sson and Motorola in the rankings of the world=s largest mobile manufa!turers. Finland=s <okia remained <o.1 o'erall with the sales of 241." mobile de'i!es last year but its market share fell from "4.2 per !ent at the end of ,##7 to ,8.7 per !ent at the end of ,#1#.

<okia and -:=s drop in market share was due in part to their failure to make more an impact in the rapidly growing smartphone market. <okia and -: saw their market share erode last year as they !ame under in!reasing pressure to refine their smartphone strategies. Enri!hment -ist. 1. /emand ,. ". oars urpassed . Permintaan . Meningkat . Mengatasi . Meningkat . %ahun sebelum . Menggantikan . Aesan . <ilai saham merosot . Meningkatkan

2. 1ose 3. Pre'ious year 4. /ispla!ed 5. $mpa!t 8. Market share erode 7. 1efine

Wife helps man fights off tiger

An 6rang Asli man was attacked by a tiger last aturday and li'ed to tell the tale. %ambun :ediu, 4#, from an Orang Asli settlement in Ag. ungai %iang, 53km from :erik town, was hunting s&uirrels in the fringes of the 9elum forest when he !ame up on the tiger. $ was trailing a s&uirrel and !rou!hed to shoot it with my blowpipe when $ saw the tiger. %hat is when $ realised that $ was being trailed,* he said after surgery at 1a0a Perempuan 9ainun Hospital here yesterday. %ambun said he tried to escape by !limbing up a tree, but the tiger !aught up with him and dragged him down. $ was terrified and $ used all my strength to punch the animal in the fa!e, but it would not budge. $ had to wrestle with it to keep its 0aws away from me, and it would ha'e !lawed me to death if my wife had not arri'ed.

%ambun, who sufferd la!erations on his head, fa!e, ne!k and both knees, had to wait more than 1# hours before being admitted to :erik Hospital be!ause res!uers had diffi!ulty in going to his settlement, whi!h is deep in the 9elum %emenggong Forest !omple?.

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3. Es!ape 4. /ragged him down 5. Pun!h 8. %errified 7. Admitted